What do you see as Santorum’s negatives. I think that he’s one of the smartest and most conservative candidates in the primary race. He comes in right after Gingrich on intelligence and ahead of Newt on conservative values.
I don’t dislike Santorum, but I have a couple issues with him:
1. He lost his last election by almost 20 pts.
2. He comes across as kind of a wimp...and when he tries to be forceful it looks fake (because it’s not his nature).
Me? RS is one of the bunch that I’m least familiar with, but his two greatest negatives to me are his Specter endorsement over Tooney a few years back and just the fact he lost his Senate seat by almost twenty points and ran a terrible campaign in the process.
Two words: Pat Toomey.
I read through the first 11 posts and finally yours has got the picture. I think Governor Perry is giving Santorum a serious look as his running mate. Also Rep. Steve King served as the ranking Republican on the Immigration subcommittee since 2007 and has long been an outspoken foe of illegal immigration. This should be a good development.
Eva, I met him last week at a non-political event at the Arlington-Mansfield Pregnancy Center. The guy blew me away. His story is incredible, two different times his wife was told by doctors to abort, they have two beautiful children to prove that holding strong to your beliefs that life is always the right choice is always going to bless you in the end. I'm a Perry supporter, but he is a man I could get behind.
He was not smart enough to keep his support away from Snarlin’ Arlen Sphincter when the Bush family and other GOparty elites told him to support Spector. That is what has totally cooked his goose. It is a shame that he can not even count on winning his own home state because of it.
His weakness to me is his liberal foreign policy. After 8 years of Bush and 3 years of Obama, I am done with nation building, sinking billions to democratize countries that don’t want democracy, wasteful foreign aid, and wars where the troops have their arms tied behind their back and that the American people get absolutely nothing out of. Santorum has made it clear he will continue that. Nothing personal against the guy, just a fundamental philosophical disagreement. I’m not against war, but it needs to either be for defense or for profit.